{"id":55564,"date":"2013-06-29T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=55564"},"modified":"2017-09-17T09:24:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T14:24:50","slug":"texas-germans-wwii-and-the-end-of-a-dialect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/06\/29\/texas-germans-wwii-and-the-end-of-a-dialect\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Germans: WWII and the End of a Dialect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/06\/12.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55567\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/06\/12.png\" alt=\"1\" width=\"559\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/06\/12.png 559w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/06\/12-500x84.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a>This four-minute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-22490560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC video<\/a> documents a population of ethnic German-Americans. They are the descendants of Germans who immigrated to Texas 150 years ago. \u00a0Over the generations, the language evolved into a unique dialect. \u00a0Today linguist Hans Boas is trying to document the dialect before it dies out. \u00a0While it persisted for a very long time, World War II, and the ensuing stigma against anything German, brought an end to its transmission. \u00a0Today&#8217;s speakers are all 60 or older and will soon be gone.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This four-minute BBC video documents a population of ethnic German-Americans. They are the descendants of Germans who immigrated to Texas 150 years ago. \u00a0Over the generations, the language evolved into a unique dialect. \u00a0Today linguist Hans Boas is trying to document the dialect before it dies out. \u00a0While it persisted for a very long time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23384,253,1777,283,285,20063,1757,309],"class_list":["post-55564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-history","tag-nation-germany","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55564"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71379,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55564\/revisions\/71379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}